Training

Marketing planning in a nutshell – Selecting a strategy

At last week’s “Marketing planning in a nutshell” workshop by Professional Marketing Forum http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/ the delegates requested that I write a blog on selecting strategies. The first part of the session focused on the marketing audit – analysing internal and external sources of information in order to identify strengths, weakness, Read More

Six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice (2016)

At last week’s “Managing and marketing a profitable surveyors’ practice” workshop in Glasgow, where the focus was on how to achieve profitable growth, the delegates identified six insights into managing a surveyors’ practice  1. Produce a (short) strategic business plan Some firms had a business plan that needed to be Read More

2016-02-26T10:05:04+00:00February 26, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Property, Social Media, Strategy|

Thought leadership lecture for Laurie Young – The future of the professions

On Monday evening I attended the Inaugural Lecture for Laurie at Allen & Overy’s offices where there main speakers were Richard Susskind and his son Daniel. James Luke from IBM was also interviewed and there was a panel discussion with representatives from Allen & Overy, The Law Society, the Institute Read More

Book Review – Persuasive writing (how to harness the power of words) by Peter Frederick

I review lots of books on persuasive writing (see the list below) to identify those that will prove useful to the lawyers, accountants, surveyors and marketers who attend my writing courses. As the importance of good quality content increases, there is continuing demand for those who can write persuasive copy Read More

2016-01-16T14:11:31+00:00January 16, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Marketing, Selling|

People management in a property partnership

People management in a property partnership is one of the topics addressed in the “Managing and marketing a profitable property partnership” training session I deliver periodically for MBL seminars https://www.mblseminars.com/Outline?progid=5865&AddSeminarToBasket=1027490 The course is based on the book “Growing your property partnership” http://kimtasso.com/publications/growing-your-property-partnership/. At each session, I ask what delegates would Read More

2015-12-14T15:35:49+00:00December 14, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Property|
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